Takanashi backs up WCup series win with another victory

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Japan's Sara Takanashi listens to the national anthem during the awards ceremony for the Ladies Normal Hill Individual of the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. Takanashi won for place in the competition. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Japan's Sara Takanashi soars through the air during the first round of the Ladies Normal Hill Individual competition of the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. Takanashi won first place in the competition. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Norway's Maren Lundby lands after her jump during the second round of the Ladies Normal Hill Individual competition of the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. Lundby finished in third place. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — A day after clinching her fourth World Cup overall title with a second-place finish, Sara Takanashi won a ski jumping event Thursday at the site of the 2018 Winter Olympics.

The 20-year-old Takanashi had 215.10 points, beating Japanese teammate Yuti Ito's 213.60. Maren Lundby of Norway, who led after the first round with a Thursday-best jump of 103 meters, finished in third place with 210.20 points.

In the men's competition, Maciej Kot of Poland finished first with 256.2 points after two jumps, with Stefan Kraft of Austria, who won the opening World Cup race at the same venue on Wednesday, second with 252.2.

Andreas Wellinger of Germany, a second-place finisher Wednesday, took third with 240.8 points.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Relatives of Jesse Owens and America's 17 other black athletes from the 1936 Olympics were welcomed to the White House on Thursday by President Barack Obama for the acknowledgement they didn't receive along with their white counterparts 80 years ago.

Along with the relatives of the 1936 African-American Olympians, gloved-fist protesters Tommie Smith and John Carlos and members of the 2016 U.S. Olympic and Paralympic teams met the president and first lady Michelle Obama. Obama congratulated the Rio athletes, thanked Smith and Carlos for waking up Americans in 1968 and praised 1936 Olympians who made a statement in front of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany.

TOKYO (AP) — An expert panel set up by Tokyo's newly elected governor says the price tag of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics could exceed $30 billion unless drastic cost-cutting measures are taken. That's more than a four-fold increase from the initial estimate at the time Tokyo was awarded the games in 2013.